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movdqa t1_j7bs7m6 wrote

I gave a presentation at one of our planning board meetings for about 15 minutes over an abutter cutting down a bunch of our trees.

Our town has the meetings and the other town meetings on YouTube so that anyone can watch them. They have a staff of 3 to do the video work and the room where most town meetings are held has a lot of special AV equipment to do records. School Board meetings are done in classrooms or gyms so the quality of the video isn't as good but it is available.

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SnareWire OP t1_j7bzscy wrote

That's interesting - I'll see if I can find something on YouTube. Thanks!

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w11f1ow3r t1_j7cphpc wrote

Love public access! There’s a couple towns with this type of set up.

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pullyourfinger t1_j7dyin2 wrote

> I gave a presentation at one of our planning board meetings for about 15 minutes over an abutter cutting down a bunch of our trees.

WTF abutter cutting down YOUR trees? that's a full-on NO, hard stop.

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movdqa t1_j7dzz94 wrote

He had to replace them but with 6 foot trees instead of 100 foot trees. He also had to remove a freshly paved area and regrade as he was dumping water onto our property from his parking lot resulting in flooding in our neighborhood. This was a strip mall and they had to agree to a number of concessions to get approval for any further changes.

He bought the property and it appears that the previous owner told him the property boundaries that weren't accurate. He also didn't know about some of the requirements put in place when the strip mall was originally built. He hired an architect to straighten out the mess. I made a 25-page presentation and printed 15 copies as that was the requirement and his architect already had a proposal at the meeting after my presentation.

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